Saturday, April 18, 2015

Right to Buy

Right to Buy

This seems to have caused quite a
Political stir, most people agreed with Maggie when she offered the
ordinary working man there council house. Of course the Champagne
Socialist and Union bosses all opposed this, how dare the working
classes strive to become property owners this seemed to be their
attitude. The truth was keeping them as Council house tenants kept
them as Labour voters but allowing them to be property owners
suddenly made the working man realise they were no longer
subservient. Interestingly enough at this time working people were
earning decent money. So now with right to buy back again in force we
get all the lefties coming out against including those Labour MP's
and SNP MSP's who took advantage of the system to buy Council Houses.

When Maggie was in power her ideal was
to put power back to the ordinary person, housing was one of them.
Her idea of the Housing Association was that the tenants run their
own housing stock, sadly like a lot of good ideas the Left wing
Bureaucrats so took over with tenants on Housing Committees being
just a token few.

What I can not understand those against
the scheme always suggest that the housing stock would diminish HOW?

Example:

Mr & Mrs Jones rent the house they
are in they the buy the house and live there. Mr & Mrs Jones
still live in the house

Yes but one more house is taken away
from social housing? Yes quite true but by selling them the house
equity is released to build another house

I lived on a very nice
Council House estate in Sittingbourne when I was a youngest , the 3
bedroomed house was built in about 1953 for the cost of £5000 it is
now worth £170,000 even if Mr & Mrs Jone get a discount of
£60,000 that still leaves a substantial profit to build another
house therefore increasing the countries housing stock. Plus what has
happened to all the rent that was earned from the house that must be
nearly £100,000 over a 60 year period. Maybe if the money was not
spent on administration there would be money to build even more
houses, these Housing Association CEO get paid more then the Prime
Minister and it alright for them to own there Million pound homes but
not their tenants.

So Right to Buy is not
only good for the tenant it is good for the country.

With regard to Private
Landlords the Leftwing always portrays them as some sort of evil
force yet if it was not for them there would be a lot more homeless.
It was the inefficiency of Council and Housing Associations who could
not supply housing that led to them even being in existence

Of course there will be
bad landlords but they are out weighed by bad tenants as for
exorbitant rent I do not know. As someone who has several one bedroom
flats and a few bedsits my rents are fair how do I know this? Simple
several of my tenants are on Housing Benefit and Swale Borough
Council only allocate a certain rent allowance per property and I am
with in them boundaries none of my Tenants, who get 100% housing
benefit, do not have to pay any top up, plus I charge those Tenants
working the same rent and I expect there are many more landlords like
me.